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Bangkok's Banquet

S ay what you will about last year's failed effort in Seattle to launch a new trade round, the fiasco has promoted at least one new export industry: trade protesters.

Worse still, the rioters that sabotaged the World Trade Organization summit in November were lent legitimacy by no less than U.S. President Bill Clinton, who suggested publicly that the unelected medley of non-governmental organizations, labor leaders, environmental activists and brownshirts who set fire to Seattle be given a seat at the table of any future...